Measuring and predicting the success of junior faculty is of considerable interest to faculty,
academic institutions, funding agencies and faculty development and mentoring programs …

Background In the highly competitive environment of academic medicine, junior faculty
investigators face high attrition rates due to challenges in finding effective mentorship …

Despite the importance of a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives in biological
research, women, racial and ethnic minorities, and students from non-traditional academic …

Little attention has been paid to understanding faculty–student productivity via
undergraduate research from the faculty member's perspective. This study examines …

Research organizations are becoming more reliant on quantitative approaches to determine
how to recruit and promote researchers, allocate funding, and evaluate the impact of prior …

OBJECTIVES: While mentoring has been associated with research productivity, the specific
characteristics of successful mentoring have not been well studied. Thus, we performed a …

In academic medical centers, there is increasing concern about the diminishing supply of
clinical investigators and the amount of clinical investigation being conducted. This study …

Although doctoral mentors recognize the benefits of providing quality advisement and close
guidance, those of sharing project management responsibilities with mentees are still not …

Background There is general agreement that the number of US science PhDs being trained
far exceeds the number of future academic positions. One suggested approach to this …

Problem Junior faculty face challenges in establishing independent research careers.
Declining funding combined with a shift to multidisciplinary, collaborative science …